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This is what America gets when it elects an untested academic, a man whose whole life has been entitlement driven, a man with no business experience, a man who lacks ANY appreciation for this great land, a man who lies pathologically, a narcisstic man with no principal base or morals. An international laughingstock. What an embarrassment. Hang in there, America….. Only a year more….
A great leader indeed !
Boy things sure change when the democrats get in charge of the Whitehouse. I can't forget how Bush and the republicans were blamed by the left and mainstrem media over high gas prices and for destroying the economy. These same people would come on just about every commercial with ads about high gas prices and said, if you elect us we'll fix it. Gas has rising nearly 100% since then. Oil exc were investigated and put on display by Henry Waxman and his democrat goons. Now that Obama is president and the democrat party had been in charge of the country since 2006 I haven't heard a peep out of any democrat or any stories from the MSM. They are sure carrying the water for this clown and his administration which are doing the same thing but worse. I'm prepared to battle this fight until 2012 I have something that the government uses for their vehicles. It's the same thing that NASA uses to get the shuttle off the ground. I have a gas pill that you insert in your gas tank and you will be able to get 32-42 mile a gallon like myself. If you would like more information just go to my profile and send me an email and I will give you more details.
The Liberal MSM will not cover this story, because the Liberal MSM does not care about the United States of America…… Liberals never have.
Liberals view America as the problem…. Americans view Liberals as the problem.
Liberals will lose.
Americans Win when Liberals Lose.
But…but…Obumble(fvck) said maybe we should think about a trade in…
yeah…in 2012, we're *definitely* thinking about a….trade in.
Well, our fearless leader did say energy prices would necessarily skyrocket. Maybe he's actually keeping a promise for once?
Candidly this might be the VERY BEST issue to prove the case that the left does not care for the truth, and even to prove as EOD says (and I tend to agree) that they do not care for America as it is (only as they want to re-make it).
They are so blatantly two faced on this specific issue that it is clear as a bell they only care about their agenda.
Maybe this should be one of the loudest conversations we should all have with our liberal friends or relatives over Holy Week is how they, their spokespeople, their MSM, etc are all blatant LIARS who only care about the price of gas when they can beat up a GOPer for it! Should be an easy argument to win (OK, yes they all are because we conservatives use logic, but nonetheless…).
FWIW ODTAA
Publius,
Speaking of gas, makes me think of oil.
Which jogged my brain to think back and issue a friendly reminder.
Today is 17 April, and in three days, we will have the anniversary of the BP Blowout in the Gulf.
Many people traipsed by here, entertaining us with articles.
This one happens to be my all time favorite http://biggovernment.com/cdavis/2010/07/07/herita... . This pretty young lass assured us she was going to "get the straight story".
Has she got it, yet?
Don't forget an anti-colonial.
Add this to the list of issues that the Lame Stream Media has given Obamao a pass on. Shameless shills.
Right after the Blowout on the BP rig, a survivor gave an account of what happened and the cause of the blowout on 60 Minutes, he had seen the whole thing because he was at the bottom of the rig and worked his way up and dove into the water and was rescued by some fishermen, the story he related on 60 Minutes was not the one Congress heard, (I watched both) from what he related on 60 Minutes I expected to see the Executives of BP go to jail for at least Manslaughter. To this day I have yet seen anything else said about the events that the survivor explained.
I have read Dinesh D'souza's book on Obama, "The Roots of Obama's Rage" three times.
In it, D'souza opines as to why Obama acted the way he did.
He continuously refers to BP as "British Petroleum" although they changed their name years ago. It is apparent that Obama hates all things British. He has an interesting take on it.
Let me guess… it has something to do with his father, having lived in Kenya and British Colonialism.
They are trying their best to FORCE us to buy those little 'green' cars…not going to happen!!! I have never been on a horse, but I WILL hitch a ride on a horse and buggy, before I do ANYTHING this criminal administration tries to make me do!!! Obama and his Chicago mob are doing their best to make the USA a third world country!!
Bring it on! We cling to our guns and Bibles for a reason….and you're it!!!
They want gas to go up so they can make their enviro buddies rich…..follow the money always…Obummer told the guy time for a trade in..should have told him..I ain;t got no job no money..time to trade his ass in
"They are trying their best to FORCE us to buy those little 'green' cars"
Yep, those and the fabulously hot (pun intended) Chevy Volt. http://nlpc.org/stories/2011/04/15/chevy-volt-sus...
No thanks, I'll pass.
It is one thing to aspire to "going green".
But NOT at the expense of the Red, White, and Blue.
Those Chevy Volts for dolts?
I remember a short while back that there was an article on Drudge, that Government Motors sold something like 230 of them, Nationwide, in an entire month.
What struck me as funny, was that is less units, than I have personally bought for my various businesses in my business career. There have been some years, that I have bought as many as twenty-five full sized pickups. Granted, that was years ago, but everything is relevant.
I'll be dropping off my recyclables today but not because someone told me to. I wonder how many of the Greenies actually practice what they preach. Having seen the aftermath of the Jon Stewart Rally in D.C. (which was probably full of environuts) I'd wager it's not too many.
Christie Alley is,….. Dancing With The Stars,……
Oprah Winfrey is,….moving to LA,…….
Charlie Sheen is,…….. wrapping up his "tour",……..
Katie Couric is,……. leaving CBS.
and what's this,…. about gas prices,…?????
Ohhhh that's how he became president.
I loathe and detest the O administration and his Marxist Mao-Loving Socialist CZARS.
Remember how "Drill, Baby, Drill" proved that Sarah Palin was stupid because it would take 3 or 4 years to get the oil and therefore wouldn't have any affect on the price of gasoline? (Lack of understanding as to what a futures market is, notwithstanding…) Well here it is, 3 years later, and I'm paying over $4/gal and it's not even the summer driving season yet. Sure could use some of stupid Palin's oil right about now…
they cant cover it because the years demonizing boosh and cash cow from high oil prices, whos to blame now?
at some point the American people, I believe, just cannot be so willfully ignorant to accept these flimsy exuses and maybe, just maybe, the leftist are catching on?
Think a "Certificate of Live Birth" from Hawaii means you were born here? Think again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Yat-sen
Especially see this: http://www.scribd.com/doc/9830547/Sun-Yatsen-Cert...
Yep, I'm becoming more of a birther every day!
I say let the price and the pain increase. Just in time for 2012. The President is on record that he would like to see expensive gas…I hope the RNC got that on tape(but I doubt it they're so damn dumb). If gas is not below $2.80 for a gallon of premium by election day, you can put a fork in Obama. There are two immutable truths. 1) The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world and 2) If mama's not happy, no one is happy. Military commanders have learned this lesson all too well as high ops tempos over a prolonged period meant hubby was away from the family far too long for mama's liking. When re-enlistment time comes up, hubby does not re-enlist and when re-enlistment rates go in the tank, senior commanding officers don't make promotion (kiss that first or next star goodbye). If you think you're gonna tell a mom with three+ crumb crunchers, that she is going to pay more for the gas to run her family van or SUV to get her brood to dance lessons, soccer practice etc and that she's not gonna be able to buy her kids the clothes and the food she thinks they deserve because she's gotta use that money for gas, fugghettaboutit. Ya don't mess with mama, her nest, or those she loves who inhabit that nest. Those who do do so at their own peril.
Agreed, but you need to put huge weight on"untested academic" as he failed in all of his college. Oh I am wrong then trot out his transcripts.
Idea for a pulitzer prize for a reporter. Find out how many barrells of oil were being produced lets say in March 2010 from the Gulf of Mexico. Compare that with productio right now. Ask one of those so call experts to comment how much lower the price of gasoline will be if we had the same production.
Bonus points for that pulitzer. Check out the number of jobs and their income which is gone.
Super bonus points. Ask Obama why he cares about the environment movement more than he cares about the average person.
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
Shows either : A. He's really not that intelligent if he wants to be reelected .
B. He doesn't really want to be reelected.
Either way the USA wins, except that we can't afford to drive, work or buy food anymore.
Silly question. Doesn't a member of Congress right now besides a salary gets a reimbursement for their cars and their gasoline expenses. Maybe if we take away the gasoline reimbursement they might care a bit more about getting a good solution to the price of gasoline.
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
What transcripts?
I'd bet this thug doesn't even have a GED diploma.
He is nothing but a drug mule.
I think it needs to be about ten bucks a gallon the day before the election.
Then get that "Rent is too damned high" guy, to do a commercial.
Hope & change! It's getting time to fix the mistake of '08.
Anyone notice the rising price of gas is inversly proportional to the Mullah's poll numbers?
Very interesting. How many others are there? Aside from the obvious.
If a reporter wants a pulitzer prize, he'd better not report any truth that reflects badly on the left.
I paid $ 4.59 a gallon 2 days ago in Novato Ca just north of SF. I couldnt believe my eyes, and my wallet started to cry
But pulitzer prizes are suppose to go to the best stories on things! It might not be popular among reporters and the left, but if will be the best story.
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
Supposed to hasn't made it so for a LONG time.
You forget that once everyone drives these "green" cares, the government plans on taxing how much we drive! There's already a bill for that.
The biggest laugh are the people that point out the Newspaper announcement about his birth, the Hospital never releases the birth information, in Obamas case it was the Grandparents that put the announcement in the Newspaper, I can go to any Newspaper in the Country and put in a birth announcement, here it cost about $10.00.
By the summer you'll be paying over $5.00 a gallon.
"Energy prices will necessarily skyrocket"….. Chairman "o".
All part of the "plan".
Why hasn't Obama been impeached for collaborating with Halliburton to raise our gas prices? Oh that's right. He's not Bush.
My wife and I planned a road trip for the two weeks before Memorial Day. I am wondering if I should cancel and just eat the money I've spent on event tickets. I might be money ahead when compared to the extra cost of fuel. We won't be planning anymore trips this year. Here comes the double dip recession.
Apparently I've attracted a troll. Is it Mikatollah or Patriotgal?
Probably takes 3-4 years to get the oil out of the ground because it takes a minimum of two to plow through the regulatory swamp.
But Bill O'Reilly said the birther argument was crap! He couldn't be wrong could he? (//sarc)
Heard something about the "rent is too damned high" guy re-registering as a Republican. That either says something about him, or the Republican party. Not sure which. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/23/jimmy-mc...
The only thing that spins faster than the $s at the pump is the US Debt Clock.
Today, here in America, Barack Obama and his socialist regime, bring you the latest in his "Misery Index":
http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2011/04/todays_...
Today, here in America, Barack Obama and his socialist regime, bring you the latest in his "Misery Index":
http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2011/04/todays_...
$5.00 per gallon while the Big "O" (a$$-hole) sits on 276 drilling request permits either off shore or on U.S. land. This is just more proof Obama doen NOT care about the American economy, the middle class who drive this machine, but wants to break the capitalist system down inorder to usher in full blown socialism.
Today, here in America, Barack Obama and his socialist regime, bring you the latest in his "Misery Index":
http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2011/04/todays_...
Ten bucks gallon before the election? That could work.
Funny graphic! The individual who picks the graphics for these articles deserves a raise.The pics of Obama in his various Il Duce / mob boss poses are usually spot on with the accompanying article.
Hyeap, They'll tax you coming and going!
You definitely be on to something, Doc. Gas was 55 cents a gallon (the equivalent of $2) when al-Qahdduh took office in 1977. By the time Reagan booted the loser four years later, the same gallon was up to $1.50 ($3.70 today). Combine with similar food-price inflation and simmer over chronically high un- and under-employment numbers for a year and a half. Serve piping hot plates piled high with FAIL on Nov. 6, 2012. Welcome back, Carter!
Not everybody can be an Ivy League Elitist. Soetoro has no clue that he could NEVER be for the downtroden, the middle class, or the poor. Not when he thinks all Americans are rich undeserving snobs who need to Crap and Trade their money to 3d world nations.
You can bet there is a lot of gas coming out of the whitehouse from all the BS and Moochelle with her love for KFC and tacobell
They sure come up with trash complaints like this :
A Southern California Republican Party official was under fire Saturday after allegations she sent an email that included an altered photo depicting President Barack Obama as an ape.
An e-mail reportedly sent by party central committee member Marilyn Davenport shows an image, posed like a family portrait, of chimpanzee parents and child, with Obama's face artificially superimposed on the child. Text beneath the photo reads, "Now you know why no birth certificate."
Davenport, when reached by The Associated Press, said she would provide a written statement with her response, but several hours later she had not issued one.
The alternative newspaper OC Weekly first reported the story, and was told by Davenport that the e-mail was "just an Internet joke." She also asked the Weekly, "You're not going to make a big deal about this are you?"
Republican Party of Orange County Chairman Scott Baugh told The Associated Press on Saturday that he wants an ethics investigation into the incident.
"It's just highly inappropriate, it's a despicable message, it drips with racism and I think she should step down from the committee," said Baugh.
Baugh said it could be several days before it's known whether the ethics committee will agree to investigate Davenport.
At the very least, Baugh said, Davenport should be apologizing for what she's done rather than attacking whoever leaked the email to media, referring to an email Davenport sent after the story broke calling on "the coward" who leaked the email to come forward.
Davenport, a tea party activist, represents the 72nd Assembly District in Orange County on the central committee.
She represents Brea, Placentia, Fullerton and portions of other Orange County cities to the county committee tasked with fundraising, campaigning and debating policy for the Republican Party.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/17/southe...
And when you put all those letters in the picture together the spell "Triple Dip Recession". (well, kinda)
Good job obama…..loser
2012 GTFO !!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks a lot, Obama voters and supporters. You really got us change we can believe in.
11/6/2012 & 1/20/13 can't come soon enough.
This too will pass… Painfully, but apparently pain is the only thing that will slap sense into the approximately 34%-35% of registered U.S. voters who gave the most powerful executive office in the world to the most liberal, inexperienced, unqualified Marxists in the U.S. Senate.
Ahyup, horses are a grand means of transportation. I'm thinking of buying a four-seater buggy so I can haul the wife and the neighbors out to a restaurant or to the drive-in.
Buy a Chevy Volt or some other minuscule soapbox derby vehicle with the optional rear window hand warmer for pushing in the winter? Nope, not even to avoid the fires of hades!
Can't afford to drive? They'll tax your feet…
Two years at minimum… Then the Ecoxtremists -sponsored litigation that follows slows the actual production down by an additional number of years while the legalese maneuvers further tie the process up in the courts.
I think five bucks a gallon will hurt the average person like a load of rock salt from a 12 guage at 20 yards. Especially when the cascading effect on everything from apples to zoloft catches up to the checkout counter.
Since rockmom got me started on horses, I'll add that a country boy will survive. Ok, I added the link mostly because I know how country music grates on the nerves of the sneering class. Bon appétit!
Technically, I have a "green" car. (Mainly because it makes little sense for me to have anything else. Don't drive much.) However, even with my rather high gas mileage the price of a fill-up is definitely hurting. President Pompous seems to only lecture us poor peasants on our "bad" habits when he doesn't have to worry about paying for filling up Air Force One or any of those myriad limos.
They sure covered it when gas prices reached $3 during the Bush administration.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feJTu3iMqBI
For every ship full of japan junk imported here uses more oil then all Americans use in their car for a year.
Do the math as to how many ships a year, add that they are the 3rd largest user of oil in the world and are only a fricking island.
That is with 50 nuke plants making electric power where they now are killing all life in the oceans and selling you products with nuke waste on it and you can see where all the oil goes
Worse just this weekend, the commies who care less that the trillions of USA dollars in profit japan has ripped off and countless American jobs lost to japan the ubama king now says you should pay to rebuild a country island that was the cause of 60,000,000 murders of WW-II
The U.S. secretary of state and the Japanese foreign minister on Sunday announced plans for a joint reconstruction venture as the Asian nation grapples with a nuclear crisis following a devastating earthquake and deadly tsunami.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said aid to Japan honors Japan's legacy of assisting other countries in crisis.
"Our two governments … have agreed to create a public-private partnership for reconstruction," Clinton said. "We wish to enhance cooperation between Japan and American businesses, between civil society groups, public officials, under the guidance of the government of Japan, with its planning."
Appearing with Clinton and Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto was Tom Donohue, the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Deputy Secretary of State Tom Nides.
"Their presence here is a reflection of the American business community's full faith in Japan's economic recovery," Clinton said.
Details on the "public-private venture" are still being worked out
The United States is acting out of longtime friendship in helping Tokyo confront a "multidimensional crisis," Clinton said. ( mean screw Americans)
Obama thought he could force green energy by denying drillin permits and harming the oil industry. But the "real world" is intruding on "Obamaland."
Analysts have been saying all along there is nothing going on that justifies this spike in gas prices. Look at the prices in Mexico, Canada, everywhere but here. It's big oil sayin, "You think you can play with the big boys? You think you got a handle on this, son. Let's just TEST that theory.
Big business is pist with his idiot cap and tax scam. They're pullin' up stakes, headin for the Neatherlands and takin more jobs with them. Fund raising calls to his "big bundlers" aren't being returned. His re election chances are slidin down the drain… one dime at a time as prices at the pump head for Mars.
That's big oil sending obama a message…….
DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS, FOOL!
The Left has one idea … to restrict the movement of the American people. That way, you don't need checkpoints.
Just paid $4.25 a gallon this morning in Northern L.A. County. Last week it wasn't as much, but I decided to fill all the way up (I've been doing $20 fills for a while because of low income) and paid $55.00. And I have a stupid !@#$%^ Hybrid car. Could only half fill today – $25.00 but it still didn't get me quite a half a tank.
And I swear on some local news program I heard the anchor say that "some economist(s)" has said that prices are going to start DROPPING soon. I think that must have been a TYPO. Summer is coming – gas goes up EVERY SINGLE SUMMER.
Food is going up.
But of course, if you don't count food and gas, there's very little, if any, inflation.
~facepalm~
Great blog post.Really looking forward to read more.cartier glasses
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